Introduction :
PICkit3 is an In-Circuit Programmer/Debugger from Microchip which doesn’t need external hardware or extra ports.
The main advantage of the PICkit3 is it can be connected to the ICSP port in the board without any additional ports.
Uses :
- Debug your application on your own hardware in realtime
- Debug with hardware breakpoints
- Set breakpoints based on internal events
- Emulate at full speed
- Program your device
Features :
- PICkit-3 features full speed 12 Mbits/s USB interface to host PC
- MPLAB IDE compatible
- Built-in over-voltage/short circuit monitor
- Firmware upgradeable from PC/web download
- Read/write program and data memory of microcontroller
- Erase of program memory space with verification
- Freeze-peripherals at breakpoint
- Program up to 512K byte flash with the programmer to Go
- Diagnostic LEDs (power, busy, error)
- Features real-time execution